An African-American protest group clashed with white supremacists outside the South Carolina State House on Saturday, where the previous week the Confederate flag had been removed from the building.

Clashes broke out and five arrests made when about 50 white supremacists from neo-Nazi groups confronted a rally of Florida-based group Black Educators for Justice, who numbered about 2,000 outside the state house.

Racial tensions in South Carolina have increased since the murder last month of nine African-American churchgoers by white supremacist Dylan Roof.

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The Sunday Mirror has reported that Islamic State has set up its first European base, in Osve, Bosnia.

According to the paper's investigation, a number of ISIS supporters – including some who are currently fighting in Syria – have bought land in the village, and it may now be being used as a training camp.

An unnamed villager said: "We regularly hear gunshots coming from the woods up there for long periods at a time. It happens every week. I don't know what they are doing, whether it is target practice or something like that, but it happens regularly."

A recent report on jihadism in Bosnia said: "Returning foreign fighters from Syria and Iraq – battle-hardened, skilled in handling arms and explosives, and ideologically radicalised – pose a direct threat not only to the security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also of the region and beyond."